By Frosty Wooldridge
Do you have five minutes to write a quick email? You may use my template letter and add to it. It’s important to inundate Time Magazine with letters to encourage them to address the core reason for mass extinction rates in the USA and around the world.
This week, Time Magazine reported on the relentless extinction rates facing millions of fellow creatures around our planet. Scientifically, it’s called “The Sixth Extinction Session” and humans cause it. Because of human expansion into every corner of the world as well as chemical, climate and habitat damage—scientists said that we could lose as much as half of all bio-diversity on this planet in 90 years.
That’s insane and beyond crazy for one species to take so much life without responsibility.
In the April 13, 2009 issue of Time, “The New Age of Extinction”, by Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine reported on horrifying extinction rates caused by human beings. They said, “We’re the cause—but we’re also the solution.” That’s absurd because our numbers expect to add another three billion humans to the planet in 40 years which means the animals and plants don’t stand a chance at survival.
Time and Mr. Walsh refused to connect human hyper-population growth with the extinction rates. It’s a feel- good article with no chance for a positive outcome for other species.
I invite you to force Time to deal with the issue by your letters to the editors. Send them 100,000 or 1 million letters to push them to addressing the overpopulation crisis. It’s THE single greatest issue facing Americans and all humanity in the 21st century. You may use my template letter and add some of your own or write your own.
Additionally, invite Time Magazine to interview the following people listed below and add them to your letter as an addendum. Thanks, Frosty www.frostywooldridge.com
Dear Time editors:
Re: “Vanishing act: how climate change is causing a new age of extinction” Bryan Walsh
While you report on the severe ramifications of extinctions to thousands of animals around the world and especially Madagascar, you never once-- connect human overpopulation that drives those extinctions. Yes, we cause extinction rates at over 100 per day worldwide, but we will not, if we fail to stabilize human population, become the ‘solution’. I urge Time Magazine to present an entire issue to the need for humanity to address an “International Sustainable Population Policy” as well as one for the USA. If we fail in that single endeavor, the human race expects to grow from 6.7 billion to 9.8 billion in 40 years. With a species like humans, even the stars aren’t safe.
Frosty Wooldridge
Lakewood, CO
Your phone number
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
ARE YOU THE NEXT SUSAN B. ANTHONY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JOHN MUIR OR TEDDY ROOSEVELT OF THE UNITED STATES?
By Frosty Wooldridge
Who is your hero? John Muir? Gandhi? Dr. Martin Luther King? Mother Theresa? Mandela? Ben Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Barbara Jordan? Your parents?
America and the world face a sobering future as to the “End of the Age of Oil”. We face water shortages caused by overpopulation. We face horrendous species extinction. Climate change looms while humans hyper-populate the planet.
In many ways, it appears grim, depressing and even futile.
Several months ago, one of the leaders of the transition movement said that they were afraid that anyone would compare themselves to Gandhi, King or Eleanor Roosevelt.
I asked what caused that fear.
Wouldn’t you want new leaders in the 21st century to stand up, speak out and take action? Wouldn’t you want new Gandhi’s, Muir’s, King’s and Jefferson’s to emerge to lead and inspire? Why would anyone close down on the new leaders taking the reins in 2009? Why would anyone disparage such leaders?
Would we rather that a Barack Obama didn’t arise out of the nightmare created by George Bush? Would we actually like to suffer another George Bush in the form of John McCain?
Certainly not! Therefore, I invite anyone to rise up and become the next Thomas Jefferson, Betsy Ross, Amelia Earhart, Condi Rice, Teddy Roosevelt or Hillary Clinton in the United States. Anyone of us can become the needed leader of the 21st century. They don’t just pop-up out of nowhere! They think, they create ideas and they take action.
In that ‘action’, they bring needed change. They inspire! They promote a plausible future!
My father told me, when I faced grave challenges as a kid, “Son, you can do that!” He placed his hand on my shoulder, “Another thing…when you feel strongly enough about something and maintain your integrity, stand up and speak out! When you do, you will be speaking for countless others behind you afraid to stand up and speak out. You will find that will be inspired by your courage to make needed changes.”
Because he did, I have traveled to the far reaches of the planet from the Arctic to the South Pole and six continents because of my father’s wisdom. I stand up and speak out when I see social wrongs or something that needs to be changed for the better in our civilization.
Therefore, I invite you to become a hero. Become the next Barbara Jordan, Amelia Earhart, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Dr. Martin Luther King and others. In the process, you may not become nationally recognized or even a hero, but you will be a hero to your loved ones and you will bring your finest creative energy to humanity’s most challenging hour in the early years of the 21st century.
As my dad said, “You can do that!”
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From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
Who is your hero? John Muir? Gandhi? Dr. Martin Luther King? Mother Theresa? Mandela? Ben Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Barbara Jordan? Your parents?
America and the world face a sobering future as to the “End of the Age of Oil”. We face water shortages caused by overpopulation. We face horrendous species extinction. Climate change looms while humans hyper-populate the planet.
In many ways, it appears grim, depressing and even futile.
Several months ago, one of the leaders of the transition movement said that they were afraid that anyone would compare themselves to Gandhi, King or Eleanor Roosevelt.
I asked what caused that fear.
Wouldn’t you want new leaders in the 21st century to stand up, speak out and take action? Wouldn’t you want new Gandhi’s, Muir’s, King’s and Jefferson’s to emerge to lead and inspire? Why would anyone close down on the new leaders taking the reins in 2009? Why would anyone disparage such leaders?
Would we rather that a Barack Obama didn’t arise out of the nightmare created by George Bush? Would we actually like to suffer another George Bush in the form of John McCain?
Certainly not! Therefore, I invite anyone to rise up and become the next Thomas Jefferson, Betsy Ross, Amelia Earhart, Condi Rice, Teddy Roosevelt or Hillary Clinton in the United States. Anyone of us can become the needed leader of the 21st century. They don’t just pop-up out of nowhere! They think, they create ideas and they take action.
In that ‘action’, they bring needed change. They inspire! They promote a plausible future!
My father told me, when I faced grave challenges as a kid, “Son, you can do that!” He placed his hand on my shoulder, “Another thing…when you feel strongly enough about something and maintain your integrity, stand up and speak out! When you do, you will be speaking for countless others behind you afraid to stand up and speak out. You will find that will be inspired by your courage to make needed changes.”
Because he did, I have traveled to the far reaches of the planet from the Arctic to the South Pole and six continents because of my father’s wisdom. I stand up and speak out when I see social wrongs or something that needs to be changed for the better in our civilization.
Therefore, I invite you to become a hero. Become the next Barbara Jordan, Amelia Earhart, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Dr. Martin Luther King and others. In the process, you may not become nationally recognized or even a hero, but you will be a hero to your loved ones and you will bring your finest creative energy to humanity’s most challenging hour in the early years of the 21st century.
As my dad said, “You can do that!”
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From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
PART 3: HOW MANY IS TOO MANY FOR THE DESERT CONTINENT?--OVERLOADING AUSTRALIA
A book review
By Frosty Wooldridge
In the third part of this book review, Overloading Australia by O’Connor and Lines, we covered the fact that Australia cannot sustain added population numbers as to food, energy and water. That hasn’t stopped ‘growthists’ in their ‘spin’ to obfuscate the realities facing the ‘desert continent’.
The authors covered the ‘refugee’ dilemma, but again, the world grows by 77 million annually, which leaves long-term immigration a futile gesture. At some point, all civilizations must come to terms with their own numbers and their own recovery.
How many more people can Australia sustain? Short answer: not many! The most realistic question arises from anyone with a three digit IQ: what’s the point of growing more population in Australia when you see what it did to China, India, Indonesia and other hyper-populated countries? Let’s face it, the reason those immigrants flee their countries provides the exact reason Australia should stabilize its own population in order to remain within its carrying capacity.
John Coulter said in a letter to the editor in The Age, “If I were a Melbournian, I would not reduce my water consumption until Premier Bracks abandons his crazy plan to bring another million people into Melbourne. Why should I save to have my savings squandered by an irresponsible Premier and leave my children in an even worse situation than today?”
Another writer said, “We have been told that Melbourne must populate or perish and that by 2030 we must absorb another one million residents. The question that Planning Minister Justin Madden should ponder is: how do we cater for increased population given that our rivers, dams and reservoirs are drying up, the drought shows no sign of breaking, one-third of the state is affected by bushfires, and blackouts are becoming commonplace? “
O’Connor addressed the ‘shortage of workers’ façade that also occurs in the United States. While 2.4 million legal and illegal migrants pour over our borders annually, corporations demand hundreds of thousands of work visas for foreign workers.
However, as of March 2009, the U.S. suffers an 11.1 percent unemployment rate and 32.2 million Americans live on food stamps. Yes, that number 32.2 million is correct!
If Australia’s politicians prove as cunning and feckless as my country’s leaders, both our countries face being overwhelmed by the third world—again with no end of the line of immigrants fleeing their own misery as they grow by77 million annually. Once millions of poor established in both our countries, our poverty rates, language chaos and sustainability will not survive.
While you read this book, you can’t put it on the coffee table. Every chapter enlightens you to greater understanding. If you feel like it, start yelling at the top of your lungs, because it could put you into a logical rage.
“We know that by mid-century the world population is going to be as high as 10 billion people. The world advice is that, that simply cannot be sustained. We are down to fewer than 50 days of flow-on food availability to meet any great emergency and will be facing a mammoth, chaotic social outcome of too many people with too few resources on the planet in the lifetime of some of us here. That is why I asked the government whether it had a population policy, and I do not believe it does,” Bob Brown in the Senate, September 16, 2008
That same applies to the U.S. It causes you to wonder if the patients run the insane asylum. Why can the media and government maintain such a high level of arrogance and stupidity side by side?
One writer said, “How can you kill a planet and still expect to live on it?”
O’Connor and Lines in the final chapters of the book provide a sobering rendition of the consequences of endless growth to the ‘desert continent’. I invite every politician, college professor, high school and college student in Australia—to read this book. It needs to be read in boardrooms and bedrooms of parents. It needs reviews by every critic across Australia. It needs to be a best seller in the first world. Every mother and father needs to read it because their kids will be wrapped up in this great ‘human dilemma’.
Thankfully, the authors addressed ‘racism’ in the book. I can vouch for Mother Nature that she doesn’t care what your race, creed or color happens to be when your species overwhelms its carrying capacity. Mother Nature kills and cripples without prejudice. As in Chapter 15 of the book, “Fooling people, fooling nature”, you bluff Mother Nature for only so long, and then, she will kick your Aussie ass! That blunt, that simple!
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said, “Twaddle, rubbish and gossip is what people want, not action. Politicians know this. Aided by the media and cheered by intellectuals, they peddle illusion, fantasy, myth, faith and hope.”
“But then there is the natural world,” O’Connor said. “It’s vastly different from politics and our delusions. People can be fooled over and over again, but nature cannot, not even once.”
At the end of the book, Lines and O’Connor show how ‘green groups’ avoid the population equation along with the media. It’s a cute and dangerous façade. They address the “Aborigines” guilt complex. They talk about climate change and ecological footprint. They nail it!
“You’d have to be an economist or a fool to think you can keep adding population forever!” said Kenneth Boulding, economist.
While the authors present cogent advice at the end of the book, I found myself laughing out loud at one of their ideas. “Why we should all waste water!” While all the environmentalists and do-gooders cry out to conserve, and the same happens with the Sierra Club in America, all the conservation in the world won’t help as Australia adds another 10, 20, 30 or 50 million people. Therefore, start wasting as much water as possible today to force the population issue to the front burner. Frankly, it will power its way into the public’s attention either now or later.
As I said at the beginning of this review, I’ve already seen what’s coming in my world cycling travels. It’s not pretty. Instead of walking that same perilous path as overpopulated countries, I invite every Australian to read this book, heed its wisdom and change course toward a sustainable nation and bright future for all Australians. Call for an “Australian Sustainable Population Policy” that limits mass immigration to near zero. You cannot save the rest of the world, but you can destroy your own civilization or turn it into a water starved, food scant and quality of life nightmare. Your children will thank you in 2050 and the world will thank you for leading the way for humanity toward a plausible and livable planet. By the way, the rest of Earth’s creatures will thank you, too!
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
By Frosty Wooldridge
In the third part of this book review, Overloading Australia by O’Connor and Lines, we covered the fact that Australia cannot sustain added population numbers as to food, energy and water. That hasn’t stopped ‘growthists’ in their ‘spin’ to obfuscate the realities facing the ‘desert continent’.
The authors covered the ‘refugee’ dilemma, but again, the world grows by 77 million annually, which leaves long-term immigration a futile gesture. At some point, all civilizations must come to terms with their own numbers and their own recovery.
How many more people can Australia sustain? Short answer: not many! The most realistic question arises from anyone with a three digit IQ: what’s the point of growing more population in Australia when you see what it did to China, India, Indonesia and other hyper-populated countries? Let’s face it, the reason those immigrants flee their countries provides the exact reason Australia should stabilize its own population in order to remain within its carrying capacity.
John Coulter said in a letter to the editor in The Age, “If I were a Melbournian, I would not reduce my water consumption until Premier Bracks abandons his crazy plan to bring another million people into Melbourne. Why should I save to have my savings squandered by an irresponsible Premier and leave my children in an even worse situation than today?”
Another writer said, “We have been told that Melbourne must populate or perish and that by 2030 we must absorb another one million residents. The question that Planning Minister Justin Madden should ponder is: how do we cater for increased population given that our rivers, dams and reservoirs are drying up, the drought shows no sign of breaking, one-third of the state is affected by bushfires, and blackouts are becoming commonplace? “
O’Connor addressed the ‘shortage of workers’ façade that also occurs in the United States. While 2.4 million legal and illegal migrants pour over our borders annually, corporations demand hundreds of thousands of work visas for foreign workers.
However, as of March 2009, the U.S. suffers an 11.1 percent unemployment rate and 32.2 million Americans live on food stamps. Yes, that number 32.2 million is correct!
If Australia’s politicians prove as cunning and feckless as my country’s leaders, both our countries face being overwhelmed by the third world—again with no end of the line of immigrants fleeing their own misery as they grow by77 million annually. Once millions of poor established in both our countries, our poverty rates, language chaos and sustainability will not survive.
While you read this book, you can’t put it on the coffee table. Every chapter enlightens you to greater understanding. If you feel like it, start yelling at the top of your lungs, because it could put you into a logical rage.
“We know that by mid-century the world population is going to be as high as 10 billion people. The world advice is that, that simply cannot be sustained. We are down to fewer than 50 days of flow-on food availability to meet any great emergency and will be facing a mammoth, chaotic social outcome of too many people with too few resources on the planet in the lifetime of some of us here. That is why I asked the government whether it had a population policy, and I do not believe it does,” Bob Brown in the Senate, September 16, 2008
That same applies to the U.S. It causes you to wonder if the patients run the insane asylum. Why can the media and government maintain such a high level of arrogance and stupidity side by side?
One writer said, “How can you kill a planet and still expect to live on it?”
O’Connor and Lines in the final chapters of the book provide a sobering rendition of the consequences of endless growth to the ‘desert continent’. I invite every politician, college professor, high school and college student in Australia—to read this book. It needs to be read in boardrooms and bedrooms of parents. It needs reviews by every critic across Australia. It needs to be a best seller in the first world. Every mother and father needs to read it because their kids will be wrapped up in this great ‘human dilemma’.
Thankfully, the authors addressed ‘racism’ in the book. I can vouch for Mother Nature that she doesn’t care what your race, creed or color happens to be when your species overwhelms its carrying capacity. Mother Nature kills and cripples without prejudice. As in Chapter 15 of the book, “Fooling people, fooling nature”, you bluff Mother Nature for only so long, and then, she will kick your Aussie ass! That blunt, that simple!
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said, “Twaddle, rubbish and gossip is what people want, not action. Politicians know this. Aided by the media and cheered by intellectuals, they peddle illusion, fantasy, myth, faith and hope.”
“But then there is the natural world,” O’Connor said. “It’s vastly different from politics and our delusions. People can be fooled over and over again, but nature cannot, not even once.”
At the end of the book, Lines and O’Connor show how ‘green groups’ avoid the population equation along with the media. It’s a cute and dangerous façade. They address the “Aborigines” guilt complex. They talk about climate change and ecological footprint. They nail it!
“You’d have to be an economist or a fool to think you can keep adding population forever!” said Kenneth Boulding, economist.
While the authors present cogent advice at the end of the book, I found myself laughing out loud at one of their ideas. “Why we should all waste water!” While all the environmentalists and do-gooders cry out to conserve, and the same happens with the Sierra Club in America, all the conservation in the world won’t help as Australia adds another 10, 20, 30 or 50 million people. Therefore, start wasting as much water as possible today to force the population issue to the front burner. Frankly, it will power its way into the public’s attention either now or later.
As I said at the beginning of this review, I’ve already seen what’s coming in my world cycling travels. It’s not pretty. Instead of walking that same perilous path as overpopulated countries, I invite every Australian to read this book, heed its wisdom and change course toward a sustainable nation and bright future for all Australians. Call for an “Australian Sustainable Population Policy” that limits mass immigration to near zero. You cannot save the rest of the world, but you can destroy your own civilization or turn it into a water starved, food scant and quality of life nightmare. Your children will thank you in 2050 and the world will thank you for leading the way for humanity toward a plausible and livable planet. By the way, the rest of Earth’s creatures will thank you, too!
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
PART 2: HYPERGROWTH--OVERLOADING AUSTRALIA
A book review
By Frosty Wooldridge
In the first part of this book review, Overloading Australia, by O’Connor and Lines, we covered Australia’s daunting future if it continues on its present immigration-driven hyper-population growth path. We discussed a “Faustian Bargain” and “Hobson’s Choice.” We discovered that Australia does not possess enough water or arable land to sustain more than 20 million citizens.
Yet, corporations, politicians and immigration groups known as ‘growthists’, defy all logic while pushing their agenda toward a 50 million population in Australia.
Oz and the United States, where I live, share similar paradigms. Both maintain stable populations via their own citizens, but both find themselves suffering hyper-population growth by immigration forced down their throats by pandering politicians. Both countries don’t comprehend their end-result of relentless immigration.
U.S. demographic expert Dr. Albert Bartlett said, “A century of 1.6 percent per year growth, which is Australia’s current growth rate, would cause Australia to increase to 100 million.”
It shows you that if you were riding in a car with Kevin Rudd, he would drive over a cliff and take you with him. Once you arrived in Heaven, and you asked him why he did that, he might answer, “I didn’t realize where I was going.”
The fact remains, folks pushing growth agendas don’t understand where they take Australia, but overpopulation advocates drive Oz over a cliff.
“First, we need to clear away a quite different objection,” O’Connor said. “Clearly the writers of this book care about nature. So why, some conservationists will ask us, are we writing about the number of people, instead of worrying about the amount of damage each person does?”
Obviously, like in the U.S., Australian media and politicians deftly avoid the population issue. It’s the sacred cow of Faustian proponents. You’ll hear about tons of people pushing alternative gardening, alternative energy and all sorts of environmentally feel-good concepts that fail to address the one issue that will negate all their efforts. No matter how many new energy saving light bulbs or 100 kilometers to the liter of gas automobiles or water conservation—when you add another 10 million people, you lose on all counts.
It’s simple mathematics, but those devils drive you toward the cliff by spinning the facts into confusion! Amazingly, they assume they are not, nor are their children vulnerable to the consequences.
Simon Grose, writing in the Canberra Times, in 2007, said, “Can we really expect to increase our numbers by about 30 percent over 50 years and keep all fed and comfortable with the hope of a car and a fridge without raising greenhouse emissions? No way!”
Finally, a mind that writes a reality based piece! What a concept! Reality! Deal with it or be swept away by it!
“No one wants to go back to rushlights and mule-back,” Lines said. “But there are just two problems. First, any interruption to the power-supply brings chaos and before long, deaths. Second, there seems no way that the planet can provide resources for this lifestyle to be shared by nearly seven billion people, let alone another two or three billion by 2050.”
At the head of each chapter, O’Connor and Lines place compelling quotes from experts and world leaders. It doesn’t take a Sydney lawyer with an ounce of common sense to connect the dots! Australia already stands in the cross-hairs of terrible environmental conflict with its own human numbers.
Mikhail Gorbachev said, “We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark.”
What I found most compelling with O’Connor’s work stems from the fact that I have witnessed firsthand the ramifications facing other countries that allowed their populations to spin out of control. For example, Bangladesh, not much bigger in landmass than Tasmania, houses 144 million people. Can any Australian fathom Tasmania with 144 million people? That’s what’s happening worldwide and that’s why people flee those countries by the millions.
Instead of absorbing an unending line of immigrants, Australia and other first world countries might help those other countries by NOT taking their refugees, but instead, send them birth control and family planning along with food production techniques and water purification. Help them in their own countries. If they refuse help, then, in the final analysis, they must suffer their own Malthusian overload. If Australia keeps taking immigrants, then, Australia becomes another Bangladesh or variation thereof at some point in this century.
“Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide, but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all--ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.” Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded Gates
In chapter 5, the authors land, like the shocking wildfires in Sydney and NSW last year, with a savage reality punch: food or the scarcity of it!
“There are several reasons why Earth is failing—but they all come down to the fact that an increasing number of people are making increasing demands on a single planet,” Lines said. “The Green Revolution is basically over, it’s gains already cancelled by population growth.”
To attest to that fact, an average of 18 million people die of starvation or starvation related diseases annually worldwide. I can say, that in my world bicycle travels, I’ve seen those deaths firsthand. It’s not a benign statistic to me; it’s a harsh visual reality. If you look at any “Save the Children” program begging to feed the children, you have seen what I have seen. For anyone that really wants to save the children, first world countries should send birth control with food. (www.quinacrine.com)
“Humans will continue to clear the diminishing lands left to other species,” O’Connor said. “Wreaking disaster upon creatures already pushed to the margins.”
Worldwide, humans cause the extinction of 100 creatures daily via human encroachment on habitat. In Oz, many kangaroos suffer endangerment as well as dozens of other species.
“The debate ought to be about the carrying capacity of the continent—a continent that has lousy soils, fragile soils and depleted and degraded river systems.” Bob Carr, writing for Weekend Australian, June 1994
Part 3: How many Australians are too many?
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
By Frosty Wooldridge
In the first part of this book review, Overloading Australia, by O’Connor and Lines, we covered Australia’s daunting future if it continues on its present immigration-driven hyper-population growth path. We discussed a “Faustian Bargain” and “Hobson’s Choice.” We discovered that Australia does not possess enough water or arable land to sustain more than 20 million citizens.
Yet, corporations, politicians and immigration groups known as ‘growthists’, defy all logic while pushing their agenda toward a 50 million population in Australia.
Oz and the United States, where I live, share similar paradigms. Both maintain stable populations via their own citizens, but both find themselves suffering hyper-population growth by immigration forced down their throats by pandering politicians. Both countries don’t comprehend their end-result of relentless immigration.
U.S. demographic expert Dr. Albert Bartlett said, “A century of 1.6 percent per year growth, which is Australia’s current growth rate, would cause Australia to increase to 100 million.”
It shows you that if you were riding in a car with Kevin Rudd, he would drive over a cliff and take you with him. Once you arrived in Heaven, and you asked him why he did that, he might answer, “I didn’t realize where I was going.”
The fact remains, folks pushing growth agendas don’t understand where they take Australia, but overpopulation advocates drive Oz over a cliff.
“First, we need to clear away a quite different objection,” O’Connor said. “Clearly the writers of this book care about nature. So why, some conservationists will ask us, are we writing about the number of people, instead of worrying about the amount of damage each person does?”
Obviously, like in the U.S., Australian media and politicians deftly avoid the population issue. It’s the sacred cow of Faustian proponents. You’ll hear about tons of people pushing alternative gardening, alternative energy and all sorts of environmentally feel-good concepts that fail to address the one issue that will negate all their efforts. No matter how many new energy saving light bulbs or 100 kilometers to the liter of gas automobiles or water conservation—when you add another 10 million people, you lose on all counts.
It’s simple mathematics, but those devils drive you toward the cliff by spinning the facts into confusion! Amazingly, they assume they are not, nor are their children vulnerable to the consequences.
Simon Grose, writing in the Canberra Times, in 2007, said, “Can we really expect to increase our numbers by about 30 percent over 50 years and keep all fed and comfortable with the hope of a car and a fridge without raising greenhouse emissions? No way!”
Finally, a mind that writes a reality based piece! What a concept! Reality! Deal with it or be swept away by it!
“No one wants to go back to rushlights and mule-back,” Lines said. “But there are just two problems. First, any interruption to the power-supply brings chaos and before long, deaths. Second, there seems no way that the planet can provide resources for this lifestyle to be shared by nearly seven billion people, let alone another two or three billion by 2050.”
At the head of each chapter, O’Connor and Lines place compelling quotes from experts and world leaders. It doesn’t take a Sydney lawyer with an ounce of common sense to connect the dots! Australia already stands in the cross-hairs of terrible environmental conflict with its own human numbers.
Mikhail Gorbachev said, “We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark.”
What I found most compelling with O’Connor’s work stems from the fact that I have witnessed firsthand the ramifications facing other countries that allowed their populations to spin out of control. For example, Bangladesh, not much bigger in landmass than Tasmania, houses 144 million people. Can any Australian fathom Tasmania with 144 million people? That’s what’s happening worldwide and that’s why people flee those countries by the millions.
Instead of absorbing an unending line of immigrants, Australia and other first world countries might help those other countries by NOT taking their refugees, but instead, send them birth control and family planning along with food production techniques and water purification. Help them in their own countries. If they refuse help, then, in the final analysis, they must suffer their own Malthusian overload. If Australia keeps taking immigrants, then, Australia becomes another Bangladesh or variation thereof at some point in this century.
“Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide, but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all--ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.” Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded Gates
In chapter 5, the authors land, like the shocking wildfires in Sydney and NSW last year, with a savage reality punch: food or the scarcity of it!
“There are several reasons why Earth is failing—but they all come down to the fact that an increasing number of people are making increasing demands on a single planet,” Lines said. “The Green Revolution is basically over, it’s gains already cancelled by population growth.”
To attest to that fact, an average of 18 million people die of starvation or starvation related diseases annually worldwide. I can say, that in my world bicycle travels, I’ve seen those deaths firsthand. It’s not a benign statistic to me; it’s a harsh visual reality. If you look at any “Save the Children” program begging to feed the children, you have seen what I have seen. For anyone that really wants to save the children, first world countries should send birth control with food. (www.quinacrine.com)
“Humans will continue to clear the diminishing lands left to other species,” O’Connor said. “Wreaking disaster upon creatures already pushed to the margins.”
Worldwide, humans cause the extinction of 100 creatures daily via human encroachment on habitat. In Oz, many kangaroos suffer endangerment as well as dozens of other species.
“The debate ought to be about the carrying capacity of the continent—a continent that has lousy soils, fragile soils and depleted and degraded river systems.” Bob Carr, writing for Weekend Australian, June 1994
Part 3: How many Australians are too many?
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
PART 1: OVERPOPULATION--OVERLOADING AUSTRALIA
A book review
By Frosty Wooldridge
With a scant 21 million people on the vast continent of Australia, how could anyone state with any certitude that Oz suffers from human overpopulation? What impudence might that take? How out of touch? How completely absurd? Definitely not ‘fair dinkum’!
China features not much more land mass than Oz but houses 1.3 billion souls. The United States--at least the lower 48 states--equals about the same land mass, but houses 306 million people. Mexico, less than a quarter the size of Australia, features 108 million people.
So what’s the problem? How could there be a snag? Australia encompasses an endless amount of land. It features 2,970,000 square miles of terra firma. How do I know? In 1984 through 1985, I cycled 17,000 kms around Australia including Tasmania. One Aussie, after learning that I intended to cycle the entire perimeter of Australia said, “Well Yank, you must be dead from the neck up!” I answered, “Yes, but it’s a great adventure.” He responded, “Do you know what the Nullabor Plains means?” I said, “No.” He said, “It means treeless for 2,000 kms and 40 degrees C. every day. You’ll fry in the heat!”
None the less, I traveled from Sydney down the Princess Highway to Melbourne; sailed over to Tasmania, up the Great Ocean Road to see the 12 Apostles, to Ceduna and across the Nullabor Plains (treeless) and on to Esperance and then to Perth, onward to Port Headlands and upward to Darwin. From there to Cairns and back down to Sydney! What did I see and how did I feel? I fried in the saddle and sweated while I slept at night under the Southern Cross. Withering heat at 120+ degrees F. daily! I stopped at the Great Australian Bite, saw Bondi’s boat that beat the Yanks in the Americas Cup, viewed the Pinnacles of Cervantes, rode past the ant castles, witnessed the ‘prison boab tree’ near Port Headlands and watched the big crocs in Darwin. A frilled lizard scared the daylights out of me near Tenant Creek and I dove on the Great Barrier Reef. I read A.F. Facey’s “A Fortunate Life.” I’m still friends with John Brown in Kiama and Lance Hill in Perth. I’ve backpacked with Lance in Nepal and push-biked across the USA with John. I love Oz and its people.
So why does Australia suffer an overpopulation crisis? From my firsthand experiences, I am here to tell you: desert and sand cover 95 percent of Australia. No water and no arable land! It’s a wasteland with kangaroos, emus, wombats and stray camels eking out their existences in the devil’s horrid heat. When I traveled Oz, it featured 14 million people which it could support. Today, at 21 million, it’s on the edge of its own non-sustainable future. Australians might fool Mother Nature in the short term, but they cannot in the long run. Oz doesn’t possess water or arable land needed to grow food thus to sustain a large human population. That’s a brutal fact!
However, powerful governmental, capitalistic and growth oriented organizations expect to push Australia’s population to 50 million tortured souls. Much the same holds true in the United States and other countries where ‘growthists’ disregard reality and push human populations beyond the ability of the land and water to sustain them. How do they do it? They promote unlimited immigration from other countries that have already exceeded their carrying capacities---and simply exhaust their excess humanity onto the shores of Australia and other countries that possess stable populations. The third world grows by a net gain of 77 million annually, so the line never ends. That alone should give any Oz citizen pause!
The author Mark O’Connor of Overloading Australia, lamented, “I found this book almost impossible to write.” He found the fortitude to finish the project only after teaming with his co-author, conservationist William J. Lines.
With electrifying clarity, O’Connor and Lines spell out a sobering future for Australia. Any kangaroo could figure out what the ‘kangaroo’ government in Canberra cannot seem to grasp! As one man who has seen more of Australia than 95 percent of Australians, I can vouch for the fact that Oz does not possess the farmland or the water to sustain any more population.
“Rightwing growthists demand endless growth of ‘the economy’ backed by endless population growth,” O’Connor said. “Forced since late 2006 to accept a serious public debate about water supplies and about how to maintain ‘growth’ without increasing greenhouse gases, they are nevertheless determined to scotch any discussion about limiting growth.”
I found it exceedingly exasperating that the ‘very’ people in charge of Australia’s future, like Prime Minister Rudd in 2008, did and does not understand the consequences of his/their own actions. He promotes a “Faustian Bargain’ on every citizen in Australia that will force a “Hobson’s Choice.”
“Rudd announced a million news homes would need to be built over the next six years to house the influx [of people] he did not venture to question,” Lines said.
Where might that influx originate? Answer: Australia immigrates roughly 300,000 people annually into its dry and dusty desert country.
Why?
“There is a powerful lobby concerned not with whether human life or that of other species would be better in a ‘larger’ Australia, but with profits!” O’Connor said.
What ‘growthists’ create stems from that “Faustian Bargain” or selling their souls to the devil of growth for the present to place everyone into an environmental and unsustainable ‘hell’ later. Once another five or ten million Australians manifest on that desert continent, everyone suffers “Hobson’s Choice”: if you pick door number A—you walk through and over a cliff. If you pick door number B—you walk through and sink into quicksand. In other words, all your choices lead to death of your civilization.
How do I know that? My cycling travels across six continents have given me a bird’s eye view of death from overloaded countries. Over 18 million people starve to death or die of starvation related diseases every year. Over 10 million of them are children under the age of 12 years.
“’Business as usual’ desires even more people each demanding more from a finite Nature. A sustainable future is one in which human demands on the natural environment are within the capacity of that environment to meet. It means living within a boundary set by Nature. As we are already well beyond that boundary, it means reducing our population and our per capita demand. Both! Not one or the other!” John Coulter, author “Population and Sustainability: A Global Role for Australia.” Australian Options
Part 2: Population vs. per capita
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
By Frosty Wooldridge
With a scant 21 million people on the vast continent of Australia, how could anyone state with any certitude that Oz suffers from human overpopulation? What impudence might that take? How out of touch? How completely absurd? Definitely not ‘fair dinkum’!
China features not much more land mass than Oz but houses 1.3 billion souls. The United States--at least the lower 48 states--equals about the same land mass, but houses 306 million people. Mexico, less than a quarter the size of Australia, features 108 million people.
So what’s the problem? How could there be a snag? Australia encompasses an endless amount of land. It features 2,970,000 square miles of terra firma. How do I know? In 1984 through 1985, I cycled 17,000 kms around Australia including Tasmania. One Aussie, after learning that I intended to cycle the entire perimeter of Australia said, “Well Yank, you must be dead from the neck up!” I answered, “Yes, but it’s a great adventure.” He responded, “Do you know what the Nullabor Plains means?” I said, “No.” He said, “It means treeless for 2,000 kms and 40 degrees C. every day. You’ll fry in the heat!”
None the less, I traveled from Sydney down the Princess Highway to Melbourne; sailed over to Tasmania, up the Great Ocean Road to see the 12 Apostles, to Ceduna and across the Nullabor Plains (treeless) and on to Esperance and then to Perth, onward to Port Headlands and upward to Darwin. From there to Cairns and back down to Sydney! What did I see and how did I feel? I fried in the saddle and sweated while I slept at night under the Southern Cross. Withering heat at 120+ degrees F. daily! I stopped at the Great Australian Bite, saw Bondi’s boat that beat the Yanks in the Americas Cup, viewed the Pinnacles of Cervantes, rode past the ant castles, witnessed the ‘prison boab tree’ near Port Headlands and watched the big crocs in Darwin. A frilled lizard scared the daylights out of me near Tenant Creek and I dove on the Great Barrier Reef. I read A.F. Facey’s “A Fortunate Life.” I’m still friends with John Brown in Kiama and Lance Hill in Perth. I’ve backpacked with Lance in Nepal and push-biked across the USA with John. I love Oz and its people.
So why does Australia suffer an overpopulation crisis? From my firsthand experiences, I am here to tell you: desert and sand cover 95 percent of Australia. No water and no arable land! It’s a wasteland with kangaroos, emus, wombats and stray camels eking out their existences in the devil’s horrid heat. When I traveled Oz, it featured 14 million people which it could support. Today, at 21 million, it’s on the edge of its own non-sustainable future. Australians might fool Mother Nature in the short term, but they cannot in the long run. Oz doesn’t possess water or arable land needed to grow food thus to sustain a large human population. That’s a brutal fact!
However, powerful governmental, capitalistic and growth oriented organizations expect to push Australia’s population to 50 million tortured souls. Much the same holds true in the United States and other countries where ‘growthists’ disregard reality and push human populations beyond the ability of the land and water to sustain them. How do they do it? They promote unlimited immigration from other countries that have already exceeded their carrying capacities---and simply exhaust their excess humanity onto the shores of Australia and other countries that possess stable populations. The third world grows by a net gain of 77 million annually, so the line never ends. That alone should give any Oz citizen pause!
The author Mark O’Connor of Overloading Australia, lamented, “I found this book almost impossible to write.” He found the fortitude to finish the project only after teaming with his co-author, conservationist William J. Lines.
With electrifying clarity, O’Connor and Lines spell out a sobering future for Australia. Any kangaroo could figure out what the ‘kangaroo’ government in Canberra cannot seem to grasp! As one man who has seen more of Australia than 95 percent of Australians, I can vouch for the fact that Oz does not possess the farmland or the water to sustain any more population.
“Rightwing growthists demand endless growth of ‘the economy’ backed by endless population growth,” O’Connor said. “Forced since late 2006 to accept a serious public debate about water supplies and about how to maintain ‘growth’ without increasing greenhouse gases, they are nevertheless determined to scotch any discussion about limiting growth.”
I found it exceedingly exasperating that the ‘very’ people in charge of Australia’s future, like Prime Minister Rudd in 2008, did and does not understand the consequences of his/their own actions. He promotes a “Faustian Bargain’ on every citizen in Australia that will force a “Hobson’s Choice.”
“Rudd announced a million news homes would need to be built over the next six years to house the influx [of people] he did not venture to question,” Lines said.
Where might that influx originate? Answer: Australia immigrates roughly 300,000 people annually into its dry and dusty desert country.
Why?
“There is a powerful lobby concerned not with whether human life or that of other species would be better in a ‘larger’ Australia, but with profits!” O’Connor said.
What ‘growthists’ create stems from that “Faustian Bargain” or selling their souls to the devil of growth for the present to place everyone into an environmental and unsustainable ‘hell’ later. Once another five or ten million Australians manifest on that desert continent, everyone suffers “Hobson’s Choice”: if you pick door number A—you walk through and over a cliff. If you pick door number B—you walk through and sink into quicksand. In other words, all your choices lead to death of your civilization.
How do I know that? My cycling travels across six continents have given me a bird’s eye view of death from overloaded countries. Over 18 million people starve to death or die of starvation related diseases every year. Over 10 million of them are children under the age of 12 years.
“’Business as usual’ desires even more people each demanding more from a finite Nature. A sustainable future is one in which human demands on the natural environment are within the capacity of that environment to meet. It means living within a boundary set by Nature. As we are already well beyond that boundary, it means reducing our population and our per capita demand. Both! Not one or the other!” John Coulter, author “Population and Sustainability: A Global Role for Australia.” Australian Options
Part 2: Population vs. per capita
Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population
Mark O’Connor & William J. Lines
Envirobook : pat@envirobook.com.au
ISBN: 9780858812246 (paperback)
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
Part 2: OVERPOPULATION--CASSANDRA SYNDROME RELATING TO THE GOPHER HOLE
By Frosty Wooldridge
In the last column you read and connected the dots from Dr. Albert Bartlett as he asked questions that pertain to the ‘silent assertion’. You know this country cannot keep pretending that we can grow forever. We must stabilize our population sooner rather than later. We cannot apply 20th century solutions that will not solve 21st century challenges.
We cannot expect Third World countries to solve their own exploding populations.
Noted scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson said, “The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”
Those of us living in large cities in America can’t help but wonder: where does it all lead? Denver, where I live, suffers a ‘Brown Cloud’ so thick with toxins that every breath fills my lungs with poison air. Our traffic proves a daily nightmare of accidents, road rage and wasted hours sitting in bumper to bumper frustration. I-70 heading into the mountains makes a weekend getaway a nightmare. Returning proves a study in aggravation. Throw in our water shortages and you’ve got quality of life racing to the bottom of the sewer. Our natural gas costs jumped 33 percent this fall after they jumped 30 percent last year. Our electricity costs jumped 13 percent. Gas prices move toward five dollars a gallon. It’s already eight and nine dollars a gallon in Europe.
Because of mass immigration, we expect an added six million people into Colorado by mid century. Texas adds 12 million by 2025 while California adds 20 million by 2035. Water shortages will become water wars!
The 1993 EPA report stands as a perfect example of silent assertion’s denial of population growth as the prime culprit of our cities’ dilemmas: “Where many areas are experiencing rapid urban growth and associated environmental problems…a stronger emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices will be a key element in any long-term solutions to problems in the area.”
How friggin’ stupid is that statement? We cannot keep growing and stop destroying farmland! In Colorado, we pave 100,000 acres annually in the name of ‘growth’. Tell me how you can grow corn, wheat and vegetables on pavement! You cannot solve traffic gridlock by adding thousands of cars to the highways. You cannot solve water shortages by adding more people, lawns and toilets to flush.
The respected journalist Bill Moyers introduced another aspect of overpopulation when he asked science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth continues at the present rate?”
Asimov replied, “It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call the bathroom metaphor: if two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want and stay as long as you want for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang on the door. “Aren’t you through yet?” And so on!”
Asimov made what may become a profound observation as we head into further overpopulation dilemmas: “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation. Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation. As you jam more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more there are, the less one person matters.”
Does anyone here think Chinese and Indian citizens enjoy their predicament? If they enjoy it, why are they fleeing their countries?
Thus, you might ponder a few of Dr. Bartlett’s Laws of Sustainability:
First Law: Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained. Persons who advocate population growth are advocating unsustainability. Such persons mislead themselves and others.
Second Law: In a society with a growing population, the more difficult it will be to transform the society to the condition of sustainability. This is caused by the phenomenon of ‘population momentum’.
Third Law: The response time of populations to changes in human fertility rate is 70 years. In other words, if we want to stabilize the population by mid 21st century, we must make changes now. For the record, the US created a stable society at 2.03 fertility level from 1970, but immigration at two to three million annually negates it.
Fourth Law: The size of population that can be sustained (carrying capacity) and the sustainable average standard of living of the population are inversely related to one another. The higher the standard of living one wishes to sustain, the more urgent it is to stabilize population growth.
Fifth Law: Sustainability requires that the size of the population be less than or equal to the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the desired standard of living. The rate of destruction of ecosystems increases as the rate of growth of the population increases.
Sixth Law: The benefits of population growth and consumption accrue to a few. The costs are borne by the ‘many’ average citizens. That’s why politicians and developers promote growth along with real estate people. They move to other havens where they escape the ‘results’ of their labors.
Ninth Law: When large efforts are made to improve efficiency, the results are wiped out by added population.
Fourteenth Law: If humans fail to stop population growth and growth in the rates of consumption of resources, nature will stop these growths. By contemporary standards, nature’s method of stopping growth is cruel and inhumane.
One look at the March 14, 2005 Time Magazine piece that reported eight million people die annually of starvation world wide—offers a window into our future. Additionally, you can see it on many of the religious channels where they solicit money for food for millions of starving children in Africa. Notice they offer food which creates more children, so they never solve the core issue of too many humans. They need to offer birth control devices, for, without birth control, all their efforts and your money become useless as those populations explode by 85 million annually.
Nonetheless, I’ll receive hundreds of emails countering this column by well meaning people who operate via emotions, hopes and faith that it will turn out okay. Their propensities fall into the “Cassandra Syndrome”: The Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out to be correct. This denotes a psychological tendency among people to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial. The person making the prediction is caught in the dilemma of knowing what is going to happen but not being able to resolve the problem. The origin of the name is derived from Cassandra, who, using her prescience, foresaw the demise of Troy. No one believed her.
What happened to Bangladesh, China and India, happened! Their problems relating to overpopulation create a miserable life for their citizens. As to what is happening in Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France and Sydney, Australia from immigrating incompatible Third World cultures and languages, which resulted in violence, happened! They dug a ‘gopher hole’ they can’t escape because the ‘beast’ is inside them. It WILL and it IS happening in America unless we change course before the ‘beast’ is too big for us to stop.
I’ve covered the major laws. If you want a full and terribly sobering copy of this report, call 1 800 352 4843 or www.thesocialcontract.com. Ask for the Fall 2007 Quarterly.
We can be docile passengers on the Titanic by silently suffering our fate, or, we can stand up and speak out to the captain and crew of our ship (president and Congress). We are not lemmings or other helpless animals willing to be led over a cliff. I’m confident that millions of Americans refuse the ‘silent assertion’ mode of denial. They know their actions will be the only thing that saves America from drowning by mass immigration. They know their actions create change for their children like their parents’ action in the last century gave them the wonders of a country that provides “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.capsweb.org ; www.balance.org ; www.populationmedia.org; www.worldpopulationbalance.org
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
In the last column you read and connected the dots from Dr. Albert Bartlett as he asked questions that pertain to the ‘silent assertion’. You know this country cannot keep pretending that we can grow forever. We must stabilize our population sooner rather than later. We cannot apply 20th century solutions that will not solve 21st century challenges.
We cannot expect Third World countries to solve their own exploding populations.
Noted scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson said, “The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”
Those of us living in large cities in America can’t help but wonder: where does it all lead? Denver, where I live, suffers a ‘Brown Cloud’ so thick with toxins that every breath fills my lungs with poison air. Our traffic proves a daily nightmare of accidents, road rage and wasted hours sitting in bumper to bumper frustration. I-70 heading into the mountains makes a weekend getaway a nightmare. Returning proves a study in aggravation. Throw in our water shortages and you’ve got quality of life racing to the bottom of the sewer. Our natural gas costs jumped 33 percent this fall after they jumped 30 percent last year. Our electricity costs jumped 13 percent. Gas prices move toward five dollars a gallon. It’s already eight and nine dollars a gallon in Europe.
Because of mass immigration, we expect an added six million people into Colorado by mid century. Texas adds 12 million by 2025 while California adds 20 million by 2035. Water shortages will become water wars!
The 1993 EPA report stands as a perfect example of silent assertion’s denial of population growth as the prime culprit of our cities’ dilemmas: “Where many areas are experiencing rapid urban growth and associated environmental problems…a stronger emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices will be a key element in any long-term solutions to problems in the area.”
How friggin’ stupid is that statement? We cannot keep growing and stop destroying farmland! In Colorado, we pave 100,000 acres annually in the name of ‘growth’. Tell me how you can grow corn, wheat and vegetables on pavement! You cannot solve traffic gridlock by adding thousands of cars to the highways. You cannot solve water shortages by adding more people, lawns and toilets to flush.
The respected journalist Bill Moyers introduced another aspect of overpopulation when he asked science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth continues at the present rate?”
Asimov replied, “It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call the bathroom metaphor: if two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want and stay as long as you want for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang on the door. “Aren’t you through yet?” And so on!”
Asimov made what may become a profound observation as we head into further overpopulation dilemmas: “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation. Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation. As you jam more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more there are, the less one person matters.”
Does anyone here think Chinese and Indian citizens enjoy their predicament? If they enjoy it, why are they fleeing their countries?
Thus, you might ponder a few of Dr. Bartlett’s Laws of Sustainability:
First Law: Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained. Persons who advocate population growth are advocating unsustainability. Such persons mislead themselves and others.
Second Law: In a society with a growing population, the more difficult it will be to transform the society to the condition of sustainability. This is caused by the phenomenon of ‘population momentum’.
Third Law: The response time of populations to changes in human fertility rate is 70 years. In other words, if we want to stabilize the population by mid 21st century, we must make changes now. For the record, the US created a stable society at 2.03 fertility level from 1970, but immigration at two to three million annually negates it.
Fourth Law: The size of population that can be sustained (carrying capacity) and the sustainable average standard of living of the population are inversely related to one another. The higher the standard of living one wishes to sustain, the more urgent it is to stabilize population growth.
Fifth Law: Sustainability requires that the size of the population be less than or equal to the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the desired standard of living. The rate of destruction of ecosystems increases as the rate of growth of the population increases.
Sixth Law: The benefits of population growth and consumption accrue to a few. The costs are borne by the ‘many’ average citizens. That’s why politicians and developers promote growth along with real estate people. They move to other havens where they escape the ‘results’ of their labors.
Ninth Law: When large efforts are made to improve efficiency, the results are wiped out by added population.
Fourteenth Law: If humans fail to stop population growth and growth in the rates of consumption of resources, nature will stop these growths. By contemporary standards, nature’s method of stopping growth is cruel and inhumane.
One look at the March 14, 2005 Time Magazine piece that reported eight million people die annually of starvation world wide—offers a window into our future. Additionally, you can see it on many of the religious channels where they solicit money for food for millions of starving children in Africa. Notice they offer food which creates more children, so they never solve the core issue of too many humans. They need to offer birth control devices, for, without birth control, all their efforts and your money become useless as those populations explode by 85 million annually.
Nonetheless, I’ll receive hundreds of emails countering this column by well meaning people who operate via emotions, hopes and faith that it will turn out okay. Their propensities fall into the “Cassandra Syndrome”: The Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out to be correct. This denotes a psychological tendency among people to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial. The person making the prediction is caught in the dilemma of knowing what is going to happen but not being able to resolve the problem. The origin of the name is derived from Cassandra, who, using her prescience, foresaw the demise of Troy. No one believed her.
What happened to Bangladesh, China and India, happened! Their problems relating to overpopulation create a miserable life for their citizens. As to what is happening in Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France and Sydney, Australia from immigrating incompatible Third World cultures and languages, which resulted in violence, happened! They dug a ‘gopher hole’ they can’t escape because the ‘beast’ is inside them. It WILL and it IS happening in America unless we change course before the ‘beast’ is too big for us to stop.
I’ve covered the major laws. If you want a full and terribly sobering copy of this report, call 1 800 352 4843 or www.thesocialcontract.com. Ask for the Fall 2007 Quarterly.
We can be docile passengers on the Titanic by silently suffering our fate, or, we can stand up and speak out to the captain and crew of our ship (president and Congress). We are not lemmings or other helpless animals willing to be led over a cliff. I’m confident that millions of Americans refuse the ‘silent assertion’ mode of denial. They know their actions will be the only thing that saves America from drowning by mass immigration. They know their actions create change for their children like their parents’ action in the last century gave them the wonders of a country that provides “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.capsweb.org ; www.balance.org ; www.populationmedia.org; www.worldpopulationbalance.org
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
Part 1: HYPER-POPULATION GROWTH—HOW FAR DOWN THE GOPHER HOLE?
By Frosty Wooldridge
America added 106 million people from 1965 to 2006. Demographic experts showed 300 million people living in America in October 2006. They expect an added 100 million by 2035. The consequences grow irreversible and unsolvable.
As population rises, carrying capacity drops. What is “carrying capacity?” For a quick rendition, it means, “The amount resources on a given piece of land to allow long term sustainable human, plant and animal life.”
If animals or humans exceed ‘carrying capacity’ of any given land mass, they crash in numbers by various means, i.e., famine, war and disease. Garrett Hardin, noted biologist called it, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
For the 6.7 billion humans in the 21st century, oil resources will define that capacity quotient. Noted Geologist Walter Youngquist said, “This is going to be an interesting decade, for the perfect storm is brewing—energy, immigration and oil imports. China grows in direct confrontation for remaining oil. I think the USA is on a big, slippery downhill slope. Will the thin veneer of civilization survive?” To see how fast we grow, visit www.populationmedia.com
Youngquist continued, “Beyond oil, population is the number one problem of the 21st century, for when oil is gone as we know and use it today—and it WILL be gone—population will still be here.”
The world uses 84 million barrels daily! That’s 42 gallons to a drum! By mid century, use will top 120 million barrels per day. It will run out because limited reserves in the ground.
Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado said, “Present population growth rate is putting our children at risk. They will experience holes in the ozone causing serious biological effects on plants and humans. World ocean fisheries are collapsing from endless plundering. Two thirds of the world’s people will suffer from water shortages by 2025. It is not possible to sustain population growth or growth in rates of consumption of resources.”
Where is the worst overpopulation problem on the planet according to Dr. Bartlett? “It’s right here in the United States!”
Dr. Bartlett said, “Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way, aided, assisted, or advanced, by having continued population growth—at the local level, the state level, the national level, or globally?”
How many people in the United States are enough? How far down the gopher hole do we want to dig ourselves? At what point is enough—too much? If we shut down the borders today with zero immigration, while enjoying our sustainable 2.03 fertility level of American women on average, we would still grow via ‘population momentum’ by an added 40 million.
In other words, we’re painting ourselves into a perilous corner. Once the numbers manifest, our society will suffer irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems. One visit to Los Angeles will show you they suffer toxic air, dwindling safe drinking water, gridlock to the point of insanity, water shortages, endless highways and housing development. Consider San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Denver and all other large cities grow beyond the bounds of reason!
Sustainable growth, slow growth, managed growth, smart growth and all other kinds of growth are oxymoronic. There is no such thing as sustainable growth. Why? All growth exceeds carrying capacity at some point. In other words, the bubble bursts, the dam breaks, the glass spills, the balloon pops and the red-lined engine blows up.
“Population growth is given as a cause of the problems identified, but eliminating the cause is not mentioned as a solution,” Bartlett said. “We are prescribing aspirin for cancer.”
At the current rate of growth driven by immigration, America will double its population just past mid century—from 300,000,000 to 600,000,000. As long as the underlying cause of a problem is not dealt with, we, and our leaders, as a nation, perpetuate a falsehood which Mark Twain called ‘silent-assertion’: “Almost all lies are acts,” he said. “I am speaking of the lie of ‘silent-assertion’. It would not be possible for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery; yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation in the North, agitators got small help from anyone. They could not break the universal stillness that reigned from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom of society--the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of silent-assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which intelligent people were interested.
“The conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity (unlimited growth) or sham (unlimited immigration), never in the interest of the respectable (average citizens). It is the most timid and shabby of all lies. The silent-assertion is that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.”
‘Silent-assertion’ worked until it brought China, India and Bangladesh to their knees with sheer misery of numbers. How do I know? I’ve spent a lot of time in Asia and other overpopulated regions. China, even with enforced one child per family, grows by 10 million annually. India, with 1.1 billion, adds even more yearly. Bangladesh suffers 144 million people in a landmass the size of Iowa. Do you see anyone racing to immigrate to those havens of human overload?
What I ask is, do we as a nation, want millions upon millions of added people from countries already exceeding their ‘carrying capacity’? Legal immigration proves as dangerous as illegal. To think otherwise will allow that ‘silent-assertion’ to create another China or India in America. Just imagine Iowa with 129 million people and all the rest of the United States with THAT kind of population density!
Albert Einstein said, “The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.”
We are no longer living in the 20th century America with only 75 million people riding horses or trains. We’re in the 21st century with cars and jets and 300 million people added to the 6.7 billion on the planet--creating horrific environmental consequences. Again, we had to change our ‘silent-assertion’ about slavery and we MUST change our ‘silent-assertion’ about population growth and economic growth. If we continue steaming full speed ahead like the captain of the Titanic, our children will be on board when we hit the peak oil, global warming, ozone holes, collapsing species, air pollution and other commensurate problems related to the overpopulation “iceberg.” Most died on the Titanic because there weren’t enough life boats.
Maybe some of us choose to maintain our ‘silent-assertion’ in the face of growing consequences, but how can any parent or grandparent be that callous to their children? That gopher hole drops mighty deep!
Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.numbersusa.com ; ; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com ;; www.capsweb.org ; www.balance.org
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Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools and civic clubs around the country: “THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT”. His published books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE” ; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES” ; “MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL” ; “BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION” ; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA”. His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP”. He lives in Denver, Colorado. frostyw@juno.com www.frostywooldridge.com
America added 106 million people from 1965 to 2006. Demographic experts showed 300 million people living in America in October 2006. They expect an added 100 million by 2035. The consequences grow irreversible and unsolvable.
As population rises, carrying capacity drops. What is “carrying capacity?” For a quick rendition, it means, “The amount resources on a given piece of land to allow long term sustainable human, plant and animal life.”
If animals or humans exceed ‘carrying capacity’ of any given land mass, they crash in numbers by various means, i.e., famine, war and disease. Garrett Hardin, noted biologist called it, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
For the 6.7 billion humans in the 21st century, oil resources will define that capacity quotient. Noted Geologist Walter Youngquist said, “This is going to be an interesting decade, for the perfect storm is brewing—energy, immigration and oil imports. China grows in direct confrontation for remaining oil. I think the USA is on a big, slippery downhill slope. Will the thin veneer of civilization survive?” To see how fast we grow, visit www.populationmedia.com
Youngquist continued, “Beyond oil, population is the number one problem of the 21st century, for when oil is gone as we know and use it today—and it WILL be gone—population will still be here.”
The world uses 84 million barrels daily! That’s 42 gallons to a drum! By mid century, use will top 120 million barrels per day. It will run out because limited reserves in the ground.
Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado said, “Present population growth rate is putting our children at risk. They will experience holes in the ozone causing serious biological effects on plants and humans. World ocean fisheries are collapsing from endless plundering. Two thirds of the world’s people will suffer from water shortages by 2025. It is not possible to sustain population growth or growth in rates of consumption of resources.”
Where is the worst overpopulation problem on the planet according to Dr. Bartlett? “It’s right here in the United States!”
Dr. Bartlett said, “Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way, aided, assisted, or advanced, by having continued population growth—at the local level, the state level, the national level, or globally?”
How many people in the United States are enough? How far down the gopher hole do we want to dig ourselves? At what point is enough—too much? If we shut down the borders today with zero immigration, while enjoying our sustainable 2.03 fertility level of American women on average, we would still grow via ‘population momentum’ by an added 40 million.
In other words, we’re painting ourselves into a perilous corner. Once the numbers manifest, our society will suffer irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems. One visit to Los Angeles will show you they suffer toxic air, dwindling safe drinking water, gridlock to the point of insanity, water shortages, endless highways and housing development. Consider San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Denver and all other large cities grow beyond the bounds of reason!
Sustainable growth, slow growth, managed growth, smart growth and all other kinds of growth are oxymoronic. There is no such thing as sustainable growth. Why? All growth exceeds carrying capacity at some point. In other words, the bubble bursts, the dam breaks, the glass spills, the balloon pops and the red-lined engine blows up.
“Population growth is given as a cause of the problems identified, but eliminating the cause is not mentioned as a solution,” Bartlett said. “We are prescribing aspirin for cancer.”
At the current rate of growth driven by immigration, America will double its population just past mid century—from 300,000,000 to 600,000,000. As long as the underlying cause of a problem is not dealt with, we, and our leaders, as a nation, perpetuate a falsehood which Mark Twain called ‘silent-assertion’: “Almost all lies are acts,” he said. “I am speaking of the lie of ‘silent-assertion’. It would not be possible for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery; yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation in the North, agitators got small help from anyone. They could not break the universal stillness that reigned from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom of society--the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of silent-assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which intelligent people were interested.
“The conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity (unlimited growth) or sham (unlimited immigration), never in the interest of the respectable (average citizens). It is the most timid and shabby of all lies. The silent-assertion is that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.”
‘Silent-assertion’ worked until it brought China, India and Bangladesh to their knees with sheer misery of numbers. How do I know? I’ve spent a lot of time in Asia and other overpopulated regions. China, even with enforced one child per family, grows by 10 million annually. India, with 1.1 billion, adds even more yearly. Bangladesh suffers 144 million people in a landmass the size of Iowa. Do you see anyone racing to immigrate to those havens of human overload?
What I ask is, do we as a nation, want millions upon millions of added people from countries already exceeding their ‘carrying capacity’? Legal immigration proves as dangerous as illegal. To think otherwise will allow that ‘silent-assertion’ to create another China or India in America. Just imagine Iowa with 129 million people and all the rest of the United States with THAT kind of population density!
Albert Einstein said, “The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.”
We are no longer living in the 20th century America with only 75 million people riding horses or trains. We’re in the 21st century with cars and jets and 300 million people added to the 6.7 billion on the planet--creating horrific environmental consequences. Again, we had to change our ‘silent-assertion’ about slavery and we MUST change our ‘silent-assertion’ about population growth and economic growth. If we continue steaming full speed ahead like the captain of the Titanic, our children will be on board when we hit the peak oil, global warming, ozone holes, collapsing species, air pollution and other commensurate problems related to the overpopulation “iceberg.” Most died on the Titanic because there weren’t enough life boats.
Maybe some of us choose to maintain our ‘silent-assertion’ in the face of growing consequences, but how can any parent or grandparent be that callous to their children? That gopher hole drops mighty deep!
Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.numbersusa.com ; ; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com ;; www.capsweb.org ; www.balance.org
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Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools and civic clubs around the country: “THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT”. His published books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE” ; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES” ; “MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL” ; “BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION” ; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA”. His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP”. He lives in Denver, Colorado. frostyw@juno.com www.frostywooldridge.com
THE MOST OVERLOOKED & IGNORED ISSUE IN THE UNITED STATES
By Frosty Wooldridge
America faces crushing issues in 2009, but what crisis do you suppose the media danced around in 2008—to ignore, to deny and to push into oblivion? Let’s not talk about it, let’s avoid it, let’s pretend it’s not happening!
While the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, New York Times, Atlanta Constitution and most other papers reported on gridlock traffic, thousands of accidents daily, air pollution overload, water aquifers drying up and not enough lanes on the highways—along with hundreds of powder puff pieces—they never once reported on the cause.
What cause? You mean we live in a cause and effect world? You mean if I pour too much scalding coffee into a cup, it spills onto my lap? You mean if you don’t repair the brakes on your car that they will fail at some inopportune time? Can it be if you stick your finger into a flame, you will burn yourself? Nah, that can’t be, can it?
You bet your bippy Jack!
So what caused most of the environmental, quality of life, energy and other exploding issues facing Colorado and America?
In 2008, the United States added 3.1 to 3.4 million people net gain. The US jumped from 303 million to 306 million on its way to 400 million by 2035—a mere 26 years from now. They slipped in quietly from other overpopulated states, legally and illegally from other overloaded countries. Both legal and illegal immigration drove the other 2.1 million added persons to the USA in 2008. We added our own 1.0 million from ‘population momentum’.
Hyper-population growth stands behind every environmental crisis facing America, yet none of our leaders or media people address it.
"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong." George Carlin
While Carlin banged on our funny bone for five decades, other concerned people discuss the more serious side of our dilemma.
"One of the biggest green discussions we have in our home is about how we will never be able to really get control of the destruction of our planet's valuable resources until we realize that we have an enormous responsibility and obligation to control the size of the human population that is expanding at a rate never seen before in our history,” said Jason Alexander (Seinfeld bald guy) “This planet was never intended to support the number of human beings we currently have residing on it. As a result, natural lands and animal populations are disappearing—and rapidly. If we do not start to really understand this harsh reality and reverse it, our planet will not survive. At least not with a quality of life that anyone would wish for.
“So our family talks about responsibility in family planning. We talk about replacing ourselves on this globe, rather than doubling or tripling our numbers. It is not an easy conversation. Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair."
Whether it’s Colorado or California or Cancun—folks—we face humongous consequences playing out across the globe in 2009. I guarantee you each problem you read about zooms in on your state and the United States IF we continue adding sheer population overload. Nothing will be gained by adding population overload and everything will be degraded if we continue on this path.
You’re invited to send this column to all your friends and all your politicians. Send LTE’s to your home town newspapers to address what we face IF we allow continue population growth. Demand they address new ideas that step out of the box. Ask them to consider: “US Sustainable Population Policy”; “US Water Usage Policy”; “US Environmental Impact Policy.” “US Sustainable Immigration Policy of fewer than 100,000 annually.”
Additionally, what ideas do you bring to the table? It’s a collective effort and every person’s input counts. If you like more information, you may look at the websites provided to help you understand this great collective undertaking to move America and your state toward a sustainable and viable future.
Let’s use our collective power to make ‘hyper-population growth’ the new buzz word of 2009 and force it into the national spotlight. Let’s deal with it and stop allowing the media and our leaders to ignore it.
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
America faces crushing issues in 2009, but what crisis do you suppose the media danced around in 2008—to ignore, to deny and to push into oblivion? Let’s not talk about it, let’s avoid it, let’s pretend it’s not happening!
While the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, New York Times, Atlanta Constitution and most other papers reported on gridlock traffic, thousands of accidents daily, air pollution overload, water aquifers drying up and not enough lanes on the highways—along with hundreds of powder puff pieces—they never once reported on the cause.
What cause? You mean we live in a cause and effect world? You mean if I pour too much scalding coffee into a cup, it spills onto my lap? You mean if you don’t repair the brakes on your car that they will fail at some inopportune time? Can it be if you stick your finger into a flame, you will burn yourself? Nah, that can’t be, can it?
You bet your bippy Jack!
So what caused most of the environmental, quality of life, energy and other exploding issues facing Colorado and America?
In 2008, the United States added 3.1 to 3.4 million people net gain. The US jumped from 303 million to 306 million on its way to 400 million by 2035—a mere 26 years from now. They slipped in quietly from other overpopulated states, legally and illegally from other overloaded countries. Both legal and illegal immigration drove the other 2.1 million added persons to the USA in 2008. We added our own 1.0 million from ‘population momentum’.
Hyper-population growth stands behind every environmental crisis facing America, yet none of our leaders or media people address it.
"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong." George Carlin
While Carlin banged on our funny bone for five decades, other concerned people discuss the more serious side of our dilemma.
"One of the biggest green discussions we have in our home is about how we will never be able to really get control of the destruction of our planet's valuable resources until we realize that we have an enormous responsibility and obligation to control the size of the human population that is expanding at a rate never seen before in our history,” said Jason Alexander (Seinfeld bald guy) “This planet was never intended to support the number of human beings we currently have residing on it. As a result, natural lands and animal populations are disappearing—and rapidly. If we do not start to really understand this harsh reality and reverse it, our planet will not survive. At least not with a quality of life that anyone would wish for.
“So our family talks about responsibility in family planning. We talk about replacing ourselves on this globe, rather than doubling or tripling our numbers. It is not an easy conversation. Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair."
Whether it’s Colorado or California or Cancun—folks—we face humongous consequences playing out across the globe in 2009. I guarantee you each problem you read about zooms in on your state and the United States IF we continue adding sheer population overload. Nothing will be gained by adding population overload and everything will be degraded if we continue on this path.
You’re invited to send this column to all your friends and all your politicians. Send LTE’s to your home town newspapers to address what we face IF we allow continue population growth. Demand they address new ideas that step out of the box. Ask them to consider: “US Sustainable Population Policy”; “US Water Usage Policy”; “US Environmental Impact Policy.” “US Sustainable Immigration Policy of fewer than 100,000 annually.”
Additionally, what ideas do you bring to the table? It’s a collective effort and every person’s input counts. If you like more information, you may look at the websites provided to help you understand this great collective undertaking to move America and your state toward a sustainable and viable future.
Let’s use our collective power to make ‘hyper-population growth’ the new buzz word of 2009 and force it into the national spotlight. Let’s deal with it and stop allowing the media and our leaders to ignore it.
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
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